Formula 1 silly season has proven to be particularly turbulent through 2020, but the majority of question marks have been removed heading to Turkey this weekend. While we still wait for news of Lewis Hamilton’s anticipated new deal with Mercedes – despite his claim there are “no guarantees” he will be around in 2021 –
Month: November 2020
Joan Mir’s maiden MotoGP victory in the European Grand Prix came at a crucial moment, as it strengthens his championship lead to 37 points with two rounds to go. The Suzuki rider led home the Japanese marque’s first 1-2 in the premier class since 1982, with team-mate Alex Rins now joint-second in the standings with
Jenson Button says he would do more testing if he were to return to GT3 racing in future after a tough debut weekend in the British GT championship at Silverstone. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion finished 14th on his GT3 debut in a McLaren 720S GT3 he shared with his Jenson Team Rocket RJN
7:00 AM ET Lewis Hamilton’s seventh world championship is a matter of when, not if, and his first chance to clinch it will be at this weekend’s Turkish Grand Prix. Circuit of the Americas boss Bobby Epstein joins the show to talk about the post-COVID-19 world for the U.S. Grand Prix and the likelihood of
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Championship contenders Rob Collard and Sandy Mitchell start tomorrow’s #Silverstone500 up front, while Sam Smelt and James Kell claimed the first GT4 pole position for Speedworks’ Toyota. Elsewhere, SGM’s Lucky Khera and Ross Wylie secured GTC top spot. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing.
Pirelli has concerns about being able to run a full 18-inch Formula 1 tyre test programme next season in preparation for the 2022 rule change. The Italian company had 25 days of slick and wet running spread across all 10 teams scheduled for this year, using converted “mule” cars. However after just one outing with
Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo admits both Suzuki MotoGP riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins look “really unbeatable” after their European Grand Prix 1-2. Mir headed Rins to secure his first MotoGP victory on Sunday at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit and also led Suzuki’s first 1-2 in the premier class since 1982, with the former moving
8:49 PM ET Just call it manifold destiny. Sunday evening at Phoenix Raceway, the coronation of Chase Elliott became official. The promise that became the potential finally resulted in the payoff. The kid is still a couple of weeks shy of his 25th birthday, but to longtime NASCAR fans he feels so much older than
Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey admits that plans to run a race in Miami are on hold amid the COVID-19 pandemic but insists the event is not dead. Liberty had hoped to introduce a race around the Miami Dolphins stadium in 2021, despite ongoing resistance from local residents and politicians. But after COVID-19 emerged earlier
Alex Rins says he’ll keep “chipping away” until his MotoGP title hopes have vanished in the remaining two rounds, after finishing second in the European Grand Prix. The Suzuki rider led for 16 of the first 17 laps in Sunday’s race before surrendering the lead to his team-mate Joan Mir, who went on to score
Chase Elliott recovered from a pre-race penalty to dominate the NASCAR Cup Series finale at Phoenix and clinch his first Cup drivers’ title. Elliott’s #9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet had been due to start on pole position, but the machine failed the pre-race technical inspection twice, which under NASCAR rules mandates falling to the rear on
Yuki Tsunoda turned down a one-off return in Euroformula Open after being told by Red Bull to focus on preparing for his first Formula 1 test at Imola. Red Bull junior Tsunoda took another step towards securing an F1 seat with AlphaTauri in 2021 by completing his first test in grand prix machinery earlier this
Fabio Quartararo says his “irregular” form in 2020 “hurts a lot” as it has allowed his MotoGP championship hopes to vanish following a crash in the European Grand Prix. The Petronas SRT Yamaha rider came into the season as one of the favourites following a breakout rookie campaign last year, and only added to this
Barwell Motorsport pair Rob Collard and Sandy Mitchell wrapped up the British GT title with victory in the deciding round at Silverstone as Jenson Button finished 14th on his debut. Collard and Mitchell qualified on pole for the three-hour season finale, giving the Lamborghini Huracan drivers the best possible chance of overhauling the six-point lead
Andreas Mikkelsen recorded a comfortable victory at Rally Hungary and believes the performance should go a long way to silencing those who doubt him. On his first competitive outing in almost a year, the Norwegian led the European Rally Championship tarmac event for all but one stage to finish over 90 seconds clear of top
9:51 AM ET p=””> Suzuki’s Joan Mir edged out teammate Alex Rins to claim his first MotoGP victory at the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday, extending his lead at the top of the world championship standings. Starting fifth on the grid, Mir moved up to second inside the opening three laps before overhauling
Join us for an in-depth look at the #Silverstone500’s 37-car entry ahead of this weekend’s #BritishGT championship decider. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for live and uninterrupted coverage of major events, as well as behind-the-scenes access, special features and fun from
While Formula 1 drivers and team bosses dominate the limelight, team mechanics remain the unsung heroes hidden in plain sight. But, in an article originally published in Autosport magazine on 13 November 1969, attention turned to a pair of New Zealanders key in helping Jackie Stewart to his first world title The best racing driver
Yamaha has clarified it didn’t swap valves in its MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix engines to non-homologated ones and says it never intended to change them in any of its units. The Japanese marque was found to have been running illegal engines in all four of its machines during the Spanish GP weekend in July, with
The Bahrain International Circuit has confirmed that its two upcoming Formula 1 races will be run “predominantly” without spectators and will just be open to frontline health workers. The venue says that the Bahrain Grand Prix on 29 November and the Sakhir GP on the shorter version of the track on 6 December will be
Alex Marquez admits he ‘doesn’t expect’ to make an Aragon-style recovery through the field from 14th on the grid in Sunday’s MotoGP European Grand Prix at Valencia. Marquez came from 11th on the grid in the Aragon GP to pressure Suzuki’s Alex Rins for the victory and ultimately finished second, and threatened a podium result
NASCAR president Steve Phelps says it is an “extraordinary achievement” that all three of its categories have been able to complete a full season in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic. NASCAR will officially close its 2020 season on Sunday with the season finale of the Cup Series at Phoenix Raceway. When that race is over,
Daniel Ricciardo says he is eager to complete a helmet swap with former Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel before the German eventually leaves Formula 1. With Ricciardo being an eager collector of rivals’ helmets, he has completed a number of swaps with competitors over the years. But he says the one driver who he has
Fabio Quartararo says his championship “will be over” if he doesn’t “take big risks” from 11th on the grid in Sunday’s MotoGP European Grand Prix. The Petronas SRT rider has struggled all weekend in the wet conditions, and was fortunate to make it straight into Q2 due to Friday’s FP2 being run on a drying
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Williams will make changes to its Formula 1 trackside team personnel for the Turkish Grand Prix after encountering a number of COVID-19 cases at the last two races. All F1 teams are running with reduced on-site personnel numbers through 2020 as part of the FIA’s protocols to run grands prix during the current pandemic. Every
MotoGP championship leader Joan Mir “prefers” the decision to only penalise Yamaha and not its riders for using illegal engines, so the title is decided on track. Yamaha was docked 50 points in the constructors’ championship, while both the factory squad and Petronas SRT lost 20 and 37 points from the teams’ standings after the
Ryan Hunter-Reay, the 2012 IndyCar champion and 2014 Indy 500 winner, will soon be confirmed as remaining with Andretti Autosport next season, Autosport understands. Andretti Autosport’s contract with both Hunter-Reay and title sponsor DHL was up for renewal at season’s end and, with the 2020-21 ‘silly season’ proving to be one of considerable upheaval, speculation
Ferrari concedes that it is now going to be ‘very difficult’ to get involved in the fight for third in the Formula 1 constructors’ championship. The Italian outfit had hoped to close in on Renault, McLaren and Racing Point to move up from its current sixth spot in the standings. It currently has 103 points,
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